If you have got over Covid can I ask your tips for getting over it quickly?

[matchingsocks]

Just received a positive test.
Have been pretty exhausted for a couple of days and am quite fevery.
No cough. No change to taste/smell.
I really dont do "resting up" very well.
What should I be aiming to get done?
What will get me better quicker?
I'm already on the multivitamins.
I'm mid 50s, a bit overweight.
Not responsible for anyone else and have sorted online grocery deliveries and online Christmas shopping already.
Poor dog is going to have to cope with just going in the garden for exercise isnt he?

Lots of rest, sleep and paracetamol.

what happens when you have Covid and try to exercise hard

Anecdote. The whole thread is anecdote. I'll wager that 95% of the people who had to go to hospital &/or critical care when they had covid "took it easy", tried as much as possible to rest & take paracetamol as soon as they realised they were ill. Tells us nothing about best way to recover.

Suck it up and rest, resting is hard but it’s going to be easier to rest for a couple of weeks than to end up spending years having to rest from long covid/pvfs. I hope you start to improve soon

what happens when you have Covid and try to exercise hard
I'd assume you'd be very tired.
Have you tried exercising hard with a cold or flu. I doubt it's pleasant.

@ArsumLardis

what happens when you have Covid and try to exercise hard

Anecdote. The whole thread is anecdote. I'll wager that 95% of the people who had to go to hospital &/or critical care when they had covid "took it easy", tried as much as possible to rest & take paracetamol as soon as they realised they were ill. Tells us nothing about best way to recover.

Still waiting for you to share the exercise regime you used when you had Covid? Thanks

what happens when you have Covid and try to exercise hard

Well, there's probably not much peer reviewed science on COVID specifically, due to it's newness. However, there's a bunch of papers that say hard exercise temporarily suppresses immune response, so I personally think it's probably not a good idea.

I think maybe something stretchy and not too vigorous, like gentle yoga is probably harmless, and maybe useful to keep your joints moving and thinking about your breathing would be useful.

I think I had two days off exercise and then took it slightly easier than usual. Was certainly back to kind-of normal exercise (not totally normal because lockdown had started) exercise within a week. Yes I was fatigued but exercise is so important for my MH there was no way I was stopping. I had a relatively mild case though.

Thanks so much fir your helpful comments everyone.
Thanks also for the nursing lecturer link, I have followed him and he seems totalk such sense.
The dog, who normally pesters the life out of me if I am a moment late in walking him, hasnt asked to go once.
He is just lying beside me and looking concerned. They know, dont they!
I was wiped out yesterday but starting to feel a bit stronger now. Might tackle a jigsaw later.

It took me 6 weeks "to get over it" and 5 months to get over residual exhaustion
Just rest...

Chicken broth for lunch and dinner every day
Porridge or boiled eggs for breakfast every day
Lots of fruit
Lots of water and some fresh OJ if you fancy it
Regular paracetamol dose for pain and fever

Nothing spicy
Nothing greasy
No rice

I ended up on antibiotics which helped as it had got in my lungs.

The antibiotics helped enormously
(Every year I do this dance with my GP. I get a cold and go to the gp for antibiotics.
He says that they don’t cure common colds so wait a few days and it will be gone.
A few days later I go to my gp. Cold hasn’t gone but progressed into my lungs. GP prescribed antibiotics)

However 6 weeks later I was still so exhausted after going to the supermarket (Went to Lidl as Tesco involved too much walking) I needed to go to another shop which was not far along the high street but I couldn’t make it.

The exhaustion was dreadful.

Can’t say exactly when it ended as I just slowly got better but thinking about it, it was about 7 months. 5 months in and I knew I had work to do but even if my life depended on it I couldnt do it.

I'm on day 15 and I'm utterly weak and exhausted. It's quite scary how little energy I have.

I'm resting as I don't have any choice , getting up for toilet is enough to make me feel shaky

I'm taking vitamin d and a daily berroca

I might get some floradix or Sambucol too

It's awful even though it's "mild"

I'm supposed to be back at work on Monday.

@ArsumLardis

Is resting up best? I wonder what would happen if people with C19 went out & exercised hard instead. Apols for stupid question, but idea that response to illness is always best = "rest"... I'm not sure that's proven.

I was in bed for almost 3 weeks. In the 4th week I managed to get downstairs for an hour or so, but sitting up on the sofa was a step too far, and I had to go back to bed. The suggestion of "exercising hard" is laughable in that context, to the point of being offensive. I actually didn't have it that badly - no breathing issues or hospitalization. I was just totally wiped out, and that is a fairly standard reaction.

I couldn’t be sure I could walk a few metres let alone exercise hard

Ds was in bed and didn’t eat a thing for 3 or 4 days.
He is 18 without any medical issues and it floored him

The friends and family that I know that have had it have certainly not felt like exercising. Most of them were floored every other day. It was a rollercoaster - would feel on the mend one day and then exhausted the next day

@matchingsocks

I started watching his videos years ago when I was a nursing student, and rediscovered his channel when covid started kicking off. Not watched many of his covid videos, but seems to be reassuring and sensible advice from what I've seen.

Your dog sounds lovely, they definitely do know. Hope you feel better soon

I had to rest almost completely. Even going and sitting downstairs or in the garden was too much. Plenty of fluids as others have said. And loads and loads of rest.

I had the most terrible - and weird - cough with mine. Did everything I could to numb it during the night but nothing really worked.

Hope it’s better for you OP.